NOTICES. of our sister state at Indianapolis on the 19th, where he hopes to meet many warm friends and to find new hands as ready to bid him welcome as those who have heretofore met him so kindly in the Hoosier State. Would that he could also attend the county fairs of Franklin, Shelby, Rush, and many others, of which the bills have come to hand, especially those which award this work as a premium. Why does not the Indiana Farmer publish a list of the county fairs in that state? NURSERY CHANGES.-I am informed that Charles Downing has sold his extensive collection of nursery stock to F. R. Elliott, of Cleveland, who will therefore be again ranked among the fraternity. The removal is to take place so soon as the season will admit. S. S. Jackson, who has long occupied the River Road Nursery, near this city, which establishment indeed he created, has moved his residence and garden to his own property on the plank road to Cleves, a few miles west of the city, where he finds a congenial soil, especially adapted to his purposes. I. C. Ferris will also travel throughout the South and West to take orders for trees and plants, of which he can speak advisedly; and at the same time solicit subscriptions for the Western Horticultural Review, the Ohio Cultivator, and perhaps the Journal of Agriculture, for which works he will be constituted an accredited agent. NOTICES. Not of books, but of their arrivals, which is all the printer will allow space for. Saxton's Rural Hand-Books, first and second editions, not separate as noticed before, but the suite of each series conjoined, making two handsome volumes. From Ward & Taylor, East Fourth street. The Journal of the National Agricultural 47 Society, Dr. Daniel Lee, Washington, D. C. A quarterly of respectable size and appearance, containing many valuable articles, to which future reference shall be made as the way may open. CATALOGUES.-New editions and old, make their appearance from every quarter at this season of the year. Among them are those of Ellwanger & Barry, A. Frost & Co., of Rochester, New York; Thorp & Co., Syracuse, New York; Reagles & Son, Schenectady, New York; T. Maxwell, Geneva, New York; Hubbard & Davis, Detroit, Michigan; James Dougall, Windsor, Canada West, and many others not now at hand. THE HORTICULTURIST.-It is rumored that this excellent standard periodical has been sold by Mr. Tucker to Mr. Vick, of the Genesee Farmer, and is to be removed to Rochester with the opening year. In thus coming a little nearer to our periodical, let us indulge the hope that its conductor, whoever he may be, will be characterized at least by the gentlemanly bearing that was ever apparent in the course of the lamented A. the Hudson. J. Downing, Esq., while he held the pen on POMOLOGICAL CONVENTION AT DIXON, ILL. The period assigned for this great gathering of the fruit growers of the North-west was unfortunately the same as that set for our own Horticultural Exhibition; it was therefore impossible to attend the former. The results of this meeting will be anxiously watched and shall be laid before the reader in a condensed form so soon as recieved, probably in the next number. The fruits that have heretofore reached us from that new region were characteristic and possessed of great interest. F. R. Elliott, of Cleveland, who is studying special Pomology, with a view to publication, attended this meeting and will probably furnish an editorial account | handsome bill of Premiums they intend to of its doings in the Ohio Farmer. These offer to the whole West who choose to come conventions have been productive of great good, not only in a social point of view, but especially in correcting the confusion of names by comparing synonymes. WESTERN POULTRY ASSOCIATION.-This energetic crowing concern has been making quite a stir in Hendom. They have issued a neat pamphlet setting forth their object, aim and history; they have also issued a here on the ninth of November to compare chickens and birds of every ilk. This may appear a small affair to some, but it has become a great business. The crowers from the north part of the state are expected, as well as the Chapman stock from Indiana and the corncrackers of Kentucky, for a splendid room has been engaged and complete provision will be made to feed and protect all feathered visitors. Do. 1 Do. REMARKS. ........ .76.73 ......75.50 .66.93 .......83-24 A severe squall passed over the city on the 25th inst., as stated and caused considerable damage The mean temperature of this month is somewhat and no high wind. under the usual mean for the last eight years, and the eastern skirt of the latter half of it, (after the rain,) unusually pleasant; a in the newspapers, fair average of rain; but little thunder and lightning, to some houses in Fulton. JOHN LEA. do. do. do. 1845,. Mean temperature of the above 8 months, do. do. of Min. SOME REMARKS ON SHADE TREES. DR. WARDER:-A very pleasant article in the former especially-are so familiar to the the August number of the Horticulturist, tree observer in all parts of the country, by the lamented Downing, entitled "Shade that it is needless here to enumerate their Trees in Cities," embraced a warm recom- beauties. The tulip-tree is fair and most mendation of the Tulip-tree, more common-queenly; and so is the white oak. "Clear ly called Whitewood, as an avenue or street and lustrous in its tufts of foliage ;" but not tree. He said truly, that it is an American more so than the oak: and though throwing tree that one rarely sees planted in America; up its compact column in stately massiveand he may have been right in saying that there are none superior to it. I have often wondered that so little has been said of its nobility, and of its most Grecian artistic beauty. But I have often wondered that the Oak should have been so little appreciated. How rarely do we see this tree planted in ornamental grounds, and still more rarely as a street shade! ness, is not a whit more regal than the oak in its combination of strength, grandeur, and unity of proportion. As I now look upon a mass of forest trees within the range of my eye, there is no tree in all the large variety there presented that stands out so clearly and boldly in the mass of green, as the white oak. The season has been a dry one here, and nearly all the other trees in While cheerfully granting to the tulip all the forest are suffering from drought, and the good qualities that Mr. Downing ascribed present a faded and sallow look. The oak to it, I shall be glad to modify the effect of throws its roots down deeper than most his suggestions a little. Availability is a trees, and thus finds a regular and constant "prime article" with us Americans: and it supply of moisture for midsummer use. The is for this virtue that we would now give most graceful guardian of the town's ways, the oak the preference over the tulip, and the elm, has always been rather my favorite over nearly all other trees, for the avenue. as a street tree; but there may be truth in Fine individuals of the white and bur oak- Mr. Downing's objection. It may be too |